If you came looking for an electronic vaporizer on DankGeek and could not find one, nothing is wrong with your browser. We pulled them.
That decision came from me, Li Avi, the owner of DANKGEEK. I want to explain it myself, because you deserve the real reason rather than a generic "temporarily unavailable" badge.
What actually happened
DankGeek runs on Shopify. On June 24, 2026, Shopify notified merchants that it would no longer support the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems — ENDS — on its platform, and gave stores until July 8, 2026 to remove those products. Stores that did not comply faced product suspension or termination.
That was not a request. For a store our size, losing the platform means losing everything: the catalog, the order history, the reviews, the fulfillment, the jobs. So we complied. We took down the electronic vapes.
To be clear about what Shopify did and did not do: Shopify made a business decision. It was not handed a court order. The pressure behind it is real and documented — in November 2025, a bipartisan coalition of more than 25 state attorneys general, along with Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and New York City, wrote to Shopify urging it to act on illegal e-cigarette sales. Shopify chose the simplest possible response: remove the whole category rather than police it product by product.
About the "ENDS Act"
A lot of people in this industry have been saying an "ENDS Act" forced this. I want to be accurate with you, because I would rather be trusted than dramatic.
There is no enacted federal statute by that name. What exists is the END ENDS Act — "Ending Nicotine Dependence from Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems" — introduced as H.R. 4624 in 2019 and again as H.R. 3051 in 2021. It is a bill. It was never passed. It would have banned characterizing flavors in e-cigarettes.
The actual legal machinery is older and quieter: the PACT Act, which in 2021 brought ENDS products under federal shipping, registration and age-verification rules, and the FDA's premarket authorization process, which has left the overwhelming majority of vapes on the US market technically unauthorized. Between those two things, a platform like Shopify can look at the category and decide the compliance burden is not worth the revenue.
So: a bill that never became law, a statute most people have never heard of, and a letter from attorneys general. That is the chain that took vapes off this site.
Why I believe this is hypocrisy
I am not going to pretend vaping is harmless. It is not. Nicotine is addictive, no vape is risk-free, and nobody under 21 should be buying one. I have never argued otherwise and I am not starting now.
What I object to is the double standard. If the stated concern is public health, then the enforcement should follow the harm. It does not.
Combustion is the part that hurts you
When you set plant material on fire, the plant is not the main problem. The fire is. Combustion produces benzene, toluene, naphthalene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide — compounds that have nothing to do with cannabis or tobacco and everything to do with burning organic matter at high temperature.
This is measurable. In a study published in the Journal of Cannabis Therapeutics in 2004, Gieringer and colleagues tested vaporization against combustion and found that heating below the point of combustion delivered the active cannabinoids while sharply suppressing the pyrolytic byproducts that smoking produces. In 2007, Abrams and colleagues published a clinical trial in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics showing vaporization delivered comparable plasma THC to smoking while substantially reducing expired carbon monoxide.
On the nicotine side, Public Health England's 2015 evidence review famously estimated vaping to be around 95% less harmful than smoking. That specific number is an expert estimate and it has been fairly criticized as too precise. But the direction of the finding has held up across a decade of subsequent UK evidence reviews: switching completely from cigarettes to vaping substantially reduces exposure to toxicants.
Here is what that means in practice. Combustible cigarettes — the actual thing killing people — are sold in every gas station in America. The lower-risk alternative is the thing that got removed from my store.
And then there is alcohol
Alcohol is sold in grocery stores, advertised during the Super Bowl, and shipped to your door by companies with Shopify storefronts.
The World Health Organization attributes roughly 2.6 million deaths in 2019 to alcohol — about 4.7% of all deaths worldwide. The International Agency for Research on Cancer classifies alcoholic beverages as a Group 1 carcinogen, the same category as tobacco smoke and asbestos. And in a 2010 analysis published in The Lancet, David Nutt and colleagues scored twenty drugs for total harm to users and to others; alcohol came out highest of all of them, at 72 out of 100.
I am not campaigning to ban alcohol. Adults should be allowed to make their own choices. That is exactly my point. Adults are trusted to make that choice about the single most harmful drug on the list, and not trusted to make it about a vaporizer.
That is not public health policy. That is a question of which industries have better lobbyists.
What you can still get from us today
The pause applies to electronic vapes. It does not apply to everything that vaporizes.
Our vaporizers collection is still open, and what is in it right now is flameless, battery-free dry herb gear — the DynaVap line, which you heat with a torch instead of a circuit board. No batteries, no e-liquid, no pods. Convection heating that gets you vapor without setting your material on fire. Honestly, a lot of our customers who try the M never go back.
Glass, rigs, grinders, dab tools, storage and every other part of the catalog are unaffected.
What we are building
We are building our own platform.
Not a theme change. Our own storefront, our own checkout, our own infrastructure, on domains we control — so that a policy update written in another company's boardroom cannot delete a category of our business overnight.
When it launches, electronic vapes come back. They come back the right way: age verification that actually works, full PACT Act compliance, licensed shipping, and a clear line about what we will and will not list. I am not interested in a loophole. I want to sell these products legally and openly, the way an adult business should be allowed to.
That work is underway now and we expect it live in the coming months. Our URLs and our site will say the same thing I am saying here — no quiet redirects, no pretending the products were never there.
What I am asking of you
Patience. That is all.
I know some of you have been buying from us for years and this is frustrating. It is frustrating for me too. I have built this store around being straight with people, and I would rather tell you exactly what happened and exactly what we are doing about it than let you assume we went under or stopped caring.
We did not. We are still here, still shipping, still taking care of you. And if this bothers you the way it bothers me, write to your representatives. The industry does not change because shop owners complain on their own blogs. It changes when customers speak up.
Thank you for sticking with us. We love you, and the vapes will be back.
Frequently asked questions
Why can I no longer buy vapes on DankGeek?
Shopify, the platform DankGeek runs on, announced on June 24, 2026 that it would no longer support the sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems and required merchants to remove those products by July 8, 2026. We complied to keep the rest of the store online.
Is the DankGeek vape ban permanent?
No. It is a pause. We are building our own e-commerce platform and intend to bring electronic vaporizers back, compliantly, in the coming months.
What vaporizers can I still buy from DankGeek?
Flameless dry herb vaporizers that use no battery or e-liquid, including the full DynaVap range. You can see what is in stock in our vaporizers collection.
Did the END ENDS Act cause this?
No. The END ENDS Act (H.R. 4624, reintroduced as H.R. 3051) is proposed legislation that was never enacted. The removal was Shopify's own policy decision, made against a backdrop of PACT Act requirements, FDA premarket authorization rules, and a November 2025 letter from more than 25 state attorneys general.
Sincerely,
Li Avi — Chief Geek
Owner, DankGeek
